Amateur Photographer

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera as a gift at the tender age of 48, but her love affair with photography had already been in progress for a long time.

She travelled the world befriending experts, such as the astronomer John Herschel, and early photographers such as her brother-in-law, the Earl Somers, and the

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